Daily Archives: May 21, 2006

Screencasting on Linux Pt 2

After my braindump of the grief I’ve had with Screencasting on Linux recently I did some more poking and reading on the sites I linked to I found this page containing instructions on using ffmpeg with a patch to record X11 screens and save as avi files.

I just followed those instructions and it …

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Screencasting on Linux

I hate the term “Screencasting”, I don’t know why, it’s just one of those nothing terms that someone coined for making videos of a computer desktop. They’re frequently used in a show-and-tell manner to demonstrate how to perform specific tasks.

I’ve been a big fan of this method of training and education. People learn how …

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